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If you are a ScrumMaster or Coach or Project Manager or Process Facilitator of any kind, I encourage you to become a master of Retrospectives. I just happened upon this great little set of slides and presentation notes about Retrospectives by a couple of people, Sean Yo and Matthew Campbell, done a couple months ago. Very helpful with some practical information, some great links… I strongly recommend checking it out. My only concern is that they limit the scope of retrospectives too much. I have a list of topics that I think can and should be considered in a retrospective:

Technology / tools

Work space / physical environment

Corporate culture

Corporate standards and policies

Teamwork

Work planning and execution

Skill sets

Interpersonal dynamics

External groups

Personal circumstances and needs

The process you are using

This list comes from a presentation I used to include as part of my Certified ScrumMaster course. (Now, in my course I teach three specific methods of doing retrospectives as part of an in-depth simulation exercise.) Here is a PDF version of the Retrospectives Module.

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